Archive for February, 2010
Are more and more young children becoming cynical towards life? Jean Kilbourne question?
February 27th, 2010 | 
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Cynicism learned from years of being exposed to marketing hype and products that never deliver the promised goods often carried over to other aspects of life. Jaded young children become the young people whose mantra is “whatever.” Thats what jean kilbourne says and she backs it up with
Support reason 1; A study of children done by researchers at Columbia University in 1975 found that heavy viewing of advertising led to cynicism, not only about advertising, but about life in general. (Kilbourne)
– evidence/examples: 1 The researchers found that “in most cultures, adolescents have to deal with social hypocrisy and even with institutionalized lying. But today TV advertising is stimulating preadolescent children to think about socially accepted hypocrisy. They may be too young to cope with such thoughts. They concluded that “7- to 10-year-olds are strained by the very existence of advertising directed to the.” (Kilbourne)
• Supporting reason 2: These jaded children become the young people whose mantra is “whatever,” who admire people like David Letterman (who has made a career out of taking nothing seriously), whose response to almost every experience is “been there, done that,” “duh,” and “do ya think?” (Kilbourne)
– evidence/examples 2: These children may bee too young to cope with such thoughts without permanently distorting their views of morality, society, and business.
Anyone disagree?
I don’t think children are any more or less cynical than they used to be.
Peer pressure has always existed, and tv has been around for quite some time. But you are right that kids are hit with more commercial advertising than ever before.
The American Psychological Association has devoted a good deal of energy studying the effects of advertising on children, especially re: the sexualisation of girls and women. We had Barbie, but NOTHING like the sexually charged garbage flung at girls and young women in this day and age.
*skizzell, you’re 13. That’s hardly a ‘lifetime’ of anything. You have plenty of time to get cynical as you get older, why the rush? What is so horrible?
Coffee dribbling the coffee bean. See adasport.com. South Korea LCD Crowd – Amazing
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Free, acceptable, fun things for teens to do?
My friends and I don’t make much money, and usually when we want to do something fun, we end up wandering the same stores at the mall. Why? We’re broke, we’re teenagers, and the only other option is going over to someone’s house (usually mine) and watching a movie. Don’t get me wrong, movies are great, but it gets a little old, and my brother dislikes being kicked off the TV. Right now, it’s too cold to do much outside, but once in the summer we played zombie tag. It was fun, but the glowsticks were expensive, and running around in the dark almost led to a bad accident. We’re just looking for something safe, legally, ethically, and morally acceptable, and something that is VERY cheap, and/or free. We used to have an ice skating rink in town, but it closed down. I don’t know if we still have our roller rink, but either way, we’d have to pay to get in, and probably for skates as well. So, bowling is out, movie theatre is out. I haven’t heard much about what our local youth groups are doing, but I don’t regularly attend any of them, and getting some of my friends who would otherwise feel bored would be difficult, and I don’t want them to feel left out. I would love some suggestions!
It is currently REALLY REALLY cold outside, we were just outside for approx. 15 minutes, and my toes were so cold it hurt to walk. Other people were losing feeling in their extremities. However, we don’t have snow.
Our interests in such games are conflicting. We tried playing DnD over the Summer, but most of them couldn’t manage to sit still that long.
Lol you’re very precise with words aren’t you? "just looking for something safe, legally, ethically, and morally acceptable, and something that is VERY cheap, and/or free" I would’ve just said cheap, fun and free haha. But thats okay. Aren’t ice skating rinks expensive? Surf the internet, watch free TV, go window shopping, wait till you’re 16 and get government youth money, electronic games, chess board games, listening to music but most of all, KARAOKE :]]. All of them fit your demands right? 
Hope this helps, plus attend the youth groups. They’re free and fun so why not?!
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World slimmest LCD-LED Tv from LG Display
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Acme LED Penguin Barrel – Djkit.tv
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